After days, weeks, nearly a fortnight, of planning, Zombiepalooza is finally upon us, and I can’t tell you how excited I am.

As you may or may not know, Zombiepalooza is an event running from October 1st until October 31st here at my blog. It’s going to be filled with guest blogs, short stories and flash fiction from thoughts of amazing authors, and tons of giveaways. Okay, the weight of the prizes won’t literally equal a ton, but there are a lot of giveaways. (I’m even kicking off this post with a signed paperback giveaway, but I’ll talk more about that in a minute.)

For the full calender of events, please check out the Zombiepalooza tab at the top, or click: here. (It’s too much to post. Because it’s a LOT of things.)

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Zombiepalooza is celebration of all things zombie and Halloween (but mostly zombie.) To start of the month, I tried to come up with a recommended reading/viewing list of all things zombie for those that may not be familiar with zombies, or even with those that are but forgot about certain awesome zombie things.

If you’re wondering how I contabulated the lists, it was by a highly scientific system called “my own personal preference” and “Google.” So it’s very accurate that these are THE best.

Right before, as in like 20 minutes, I saw this movie in theaters, I gotmy rook pierced and a tattoo, and this became my most intense movie viewing experience of all time. But even when I’m not in crazy pain, I still love this movie.

*I haven’t actually seen Zombieland because of my current issues with Jesse Eisenberg (he knows what he did), but I want to see it, and generally consesus via the internet is that if you like zombies, you should see Zombieland

No movie has ever given me more nightmares this one. It’s supposedly a film for “children” but I saw this when I was 10 and it still terrified me. It could be because of massive fear of trolls (truth), but that troll was really scary. Really.

Anything by David Lynch. Eraserhead and Blue Velvet are my top picks. His movies make my skin crawl and I get nauseous. That man is the true master of horror.

I tried to think of books that scared me. I’ve read all of Stephen King, and while I recommend it, none of it ever scared me. I could only come with one book that actually freaked me out and gave me nightmares.

Grubsby David McAfee. I’ll admit that it didn’t help that I’m predispositioned to hating maggots more than anything (except trolls), but the book is still subversively creepy. It’s got a lot of camp, but it’s still good. It’s sorta like Slither, only better because it doesn’t have Elizabeth Banks.

But my lists of scary aren’t definitive, of course and I’d love to hear what everybody’s favorite scary movies are. That’s what the comments section is for. 😉

Jerusalem, 33 A.D. The vampires of the era have long sought to gain a foothold into Israel, but the faith of the local Jewish population has held them in check for centuries.

When one of their own betrays them to follow a strange young rabbi from Galilee, the elders of the vampire race dispatch Theron, a nine hundred year old assassin, to kill them both.

The rabbi’s name is Jesus. Killing him should be easy.

“33 A.D. by David McAfee is a wildly original, non-stop pulse pounder that tells the story of a vampire assassin whose mission is to kill Jesus of Nazareth. In a genre mired by cliché stories, this stands out as something bold and new.”– Jeremy Robinson, author of Pulse and Instinct

The giveaway for the paperback of 33 A.D. has the same rules as the other Zombiepalooza giveaways –

1. To enter to win, comment on this blog, leaving an email address to contact you in case you win.

2. The giveaway runs from now until October 28th at midnight. On October 29th, winners will be chosen by random.org and contacted. They have 72 hours to reply before the prize defaults to the runner-up.

3. Only one entry per giveaway. (But you can enter as many different Zombiepalooza giveaways as you want.)

I had nightmares of the troll from Ernest Scared Stupid too! The movie itself was hilarious but that troll just freaked me out! I think it was all the snot and sticky goo that I would not want ever touching me.

I am always looking for the next book to scare the you-know-what out of me. The last one to do it and do it well was Daniel Hecht’s The City of Masks — I was seriously creeped out several times during the book and a scene during the great reveal at the end has stuck with me for years. For someone who loves the cold — like me — its the ultimate bad way to die.

The book 33 A.D. look really great and I hope I win — I’d love to be scared witless again.

I love all films with zombies. For some reason they strike a chord with me and I can’t get enough of them. Shaun of the Dead is by far my favorite since it’s hilarious and Simon Pegg is awesome. Pan’s Labyrinth is an awesomely creepy movie that gave me nightmares so I loved it.

See? Eisenberg’s general Michael Cera-ness that would normally be annoying is actually a nice contrast to Woody’s crazy (and I don’t think Woody Harrelson was “acting” in this movie). And the rules for surviving a zombie appocalypse…they work just fine for the regular world, too.Glad you saw, and liked.